writer's cramp

American  

noun

1. spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.

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writer's cramp British  

noun

1. a muscular spasm or temporary paralysis of the muscles of the thumb and first two fingers caused by prolonged writing

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There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp.

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The official diagnosis is that Fleisher's malady much resembles writer's cramp.

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Newspapers reported that Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, prolific humorist and short story writer, was down with writer's cramp in San Francisco, had to stop work on his memoirs.

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Quizzed further, Humorist Cobb refuted both reports, swore he had never had writer's cramp.

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In occupation neuroses, other than those produced by the use of the pen, pain, weakness, and numbness are at least equally prominent, and even in writer's cramp the "neuralgic" form is common.

From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln